Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Compute)

Highlights

• Own planning and operation of GPU fleet powering every Perplexity product.
• Forecast 3-12 month compute demand and turn it into capacity commitments.
• Build single trusted view of capacity, cost, allocation and reliability.

What they offer

• equity

Ideal candidate

Infrastructure operator who thrives on ownership and ambiguity, energized by running large GPU fleets efficiently and aligning engineering, finance and providers around hard trade-offs.

Requirements

• 6+ years of technical program management, capacity planning or infrastructure operations in cloud environments, leading programs across teams and vendors
• Direct experience with GPU or accelerator fleets across training and inference workloads
• Experience working directly with cloud or neocloud providers on reserved capacity, commitments, onboarding or vendor performance
• Experience with infrastructure cost modeling, unit economics or cost attribution in partnership with Finance
• Technical depth in cluster management, scheduling and orchestration, and data skills to build forecasts and dashboards
• Judgment to surface hard trade-offs and communicate clearly from engineers to executives
• Thrives in a small, agile team with initiative and ownership without much precedent